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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by Twisell »

nice_byte wrote: post #150
Klonoar wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We should seek to improve what we had before without losing the spirit. There's nothing useful about recreating the look of old forums.

nothing useful about endlessly replicating the current design trends either.

Well it's maybe harsh to expect from new engine dev to invent an whole new original design on top of the new code.

Maybe the real question is does this engine provide easy and performant template management? (Site is currently down can't lookup now)

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by [deleted] »

Aeolun wrote: post #65

This is way too flat to be a 2000s era forum. But it looks nice. I’m not sure about thread display on mobile though. The table format seems like it takes way too much space for the post count display. Also, navigating back somehow keeps the existing page after swiping, and then janks back to the previous page after 200ms or so. Not sure what causes that.

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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by rambambram »

julianlam wrote: post #146

As the maintainer of a self-proclaimed "modern" forum software, I always get really excited when new board software comes out. You've probably discovered that building forum software is a lot more complicated than it looks. Those early boards really had a lot more going on under the hood than you thought! It took us (a team of 3) two solid years before we considered ourselves on par with those old boards, feature-wis…

NodeBB looks nice. A mobile first experience for a forum was lacking in the old ones. Your blog doesn't seem to have an RSS feed!?

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by partly_cloudy »

idiocrat wrote: post #131
Arrath wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh you saw that thread by poster 'aaaaa' also? I registered just to tell them to fuck off but by the time I did the thread had been deleted. Way to go moderation!

It seems the forum is too generic, has no specialization, and has no seeded curated content. So if some CRM company has their demo/demo portal, I also post aaaaaaaaaa to check the basic functionality, not hoping this will ever take off. I also post very long aaaaaaa....aaaaaaa to see how the interface deals with overflow. Anyway whatever I post will be refreshed next day.

he had a racist ass username so i changed it

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by partly_cloudy »

idiocrat wrote: post #129
Vapormac wrote: post #72

The (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) is chef's kiss

This turned me off. The reason given for the ban that the user has used Dostoevsky's book title as his handle name.

yeah he just had some stupid racist username
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